Attachments
Focus on year-to-date budget and expenditure
Period covered by this update: 11 November 2013 to 30 October 2014
Appeal target (current): CHF 99.88 million
Appeal coverage: 87 per cent in hard pledges
Appeal history:
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30 July 2014: A further revision of the emergency appeal was launched, seeking CHF 99.88 million to support 100,000 households (500,000 people) up to December 2016.
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16 January 2014: A revision of this emergency appeal was launched for CHF 126.2 million to support 100,000 families (500,000 people) over 24 months.
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12 November 2013: An emergency appeal was launched on a preliminary basis for CHF 72.3 million to support 100,000 families (500,000 people) over 18 months.
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8 November 2013: CHF 475,495 was allocated from the IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) to support the Philippine Red Cross in delivering assistance to those affected and undertake initial needs assessments in the affected areas.
The situation
Identified as one of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded, Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Yolanda) struck Central Philippines on Friday, 8 November 2013. It made landfall in Guiuan, Eastern Samar; then cut across Visayas, the islands of Leyte, Cebu, Bantayan, Panay, and northern Palawan, finally heading out to sea, west of the Philippines on 9 November 2013. According to the updated released by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) on 17 April 2014, Haiyan resulted in the death of 6,300 people.